Kentucky's John Calipari: 'I am not out looking for jobs'

Still tackling speculation that he is on the lookout for a coaching job in the NBA, University of Kentucky coach John Calipari went on 95.5 The Fan in Portland, Ore., and again reiterated that he isn't going anywhere.

"That stuff, what I said before, can't stop all the speculation and rumors and innuendo," Calipari said. "What I have said is that I am going to be coaching at Kentucky and I will be at Kentucky next year. I am not out looking for jobs. I have got in my opinion the best job in the country."

Calipari also talked about his relationship with LeBron James.

"I mean I can't stop the speculation. LeBron and I are friends," Calipari said. "That is what we are, but I have other players in the league that I have coached, I mean eight or ten of them. So I don't know all of a sudden this became LeBron and Cal, and how that started. But obviously I am not going to answer everything that is thrown, and all of the speculation. I just said that 'Hey, I am going to be at Kentucky.'"

This is about the 10th time that Calipari has scuttled speculation about a move to the NBA, but still rumors continue to follow the Wildcats' coach.

In his interview with 95.5 The Fan, Calipari also talked about the recruitment of Terrence Jones, who committed to Kentucky last week after previously saying he wanted to attend the University of Washington.

Some reports have blamed Calipari for recruiting Jones after he had already committed to UW.

"Well we thought that he was coming with us and when he said 'Washington' we were like 'what just happened?' That was the first thing. Then he called about an hour later and said 'Cal, I made a mistake. I don't know what I was doing.' That is when the thing went like 'You what?' So we talked to him and said that we are going to do whatever you want. I am holding your scholarship. At one point I said, 'Look, if you want to go to Washington then go to Washington, and if you want to come with us, come with us. Just make a decision so that we can all move on.' But I felt bad for him to be honest with you. Because he is 6'9'' everybody thinks that this guy is a grown man. They have emotions and they still, the peer pressure wanting to please everybody. Terrence is a pleaser. He is not one to be confrontational. He is not one that… He is a pleaser. He wanted to please me, he wanted to please Lorenzo, wanted to please his teammates. That is what he is."

Calipari said Jones called him minutes after the press conference on April 30 when he committed to Washington and said he wanted to reconsider.

"If he had committed to Washington and that was the end of it then we wouldn't have done anything. But this was a unique situation."

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